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| Criterion |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Product Strategy DIBB |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-240 min | 1-2 h | 30-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |